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That’s it, you’ll now be able to use the hotkey to right click on any selected element on your Mac. All MacBook Pro and Air laptops now come with a backlit keyboard that not only makes typing easier in low light but also looks very stylish. Select the Right Click workflow, and set your preferred hotkey to use for right clicking.
Once the update has been installed, head over to Alfred Preferences and go to “Workflows.”.To do this, just open Alfred and type “update.”
The app is paid, but it offers a free trial, and brings a lot of features. If you’re annoyed of having to add every single app you want to use the right click shortcut on to the list of apps allowed to control your Mac, you can use Better Touch Tool ( 45 day free trial license starts at $6.50) as well.
Here are the steps you’ll need to follow: The first (and the only free) method to right click on Mac using a keyboard requires some Apple Script work, and a little bit of playtime with Automator - both incredibly useful tools that Apple bundles with every Mac. Note: I tried these methods on my 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave Developer Beta and all of them worked perfectly fine. Using Keyboard on Mac with Better Touch Tool.Using Keyboard on Mac with Apple Script and Automator.So after quite some time of scouring the internet, I was able to figure out three separate ways that you can right click on a highlighted element without having to move your mouse cursor there first. For the most part, there are ways that you can configure keyboard shortcuts to perform a right click in macOS, however these ways simply perform a right click wherever the mouse cursor happens to be, instead of the file, folder, URL, or word that you happen to have selected.